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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Music Performance is the 116th most popular major in the country with 7,281 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Washington, there were 69 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 65 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,970 and $20,602 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music performance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their music performance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The music performance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornish College of the Arts. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Music Performance at Cornish College of the Arts
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Whitman College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington list. Walla Walla, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Whitman College Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Washington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington list. Located in Ellensburg, Washington, this medium-sized public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Performance at CWU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Puget Sound. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington list. This small school is located in Tacoma, Washington, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Music Performance at Puget Sound
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gonzaga University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington list. Spokane, Washington is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at Gonzaga
Western Washington University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington ranking, coming in at #6. Bellingham, Washington is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 14 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at WWU
Washington State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington ranking. Wazzu is a public institution located in Pullman, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Performance at Wazzu
With a ranking of #8, University of Washington - Seattle Campus did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full UW Seattle Music Performance Report
Walla Walla University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Washington ranking, coming in at #9. Located in College Place, Washington, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at Walla Walla U
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References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
